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Privacy

Dublin City Council will not collect any personal information about you on this website without your permission. Any personal information supplied will be treated as confidential.

Dublin City Council does not routinely collect personal information about you, except for information you volunteer by e-mailing us, completing a feedback form or by requesting a service.

We will use any personal information supplied only for the intended purpose and we will not pass your personal details on to any third parties.

Technical details of your visit to this website are recorded only for business purposes. These details include IP addresses and web search terms. This information will only be used for statistical and administrative purposes.

Data Protection

Your rights

The Data Protection Acts give you the right to get a copy, clearly explained, of any information about you kept on computer or in a structured manual filing system, by any person or organisation (Section 4 of the Data Protection Acts, 1988 and 2003)

Our Policy

Dublin City Council promises to operate best practice in relation to its responsibilities under the Data Protection Acts. This policy is informed and guided by the principles contained in the Rules for Data Protection as detailed by the Data Protection Commissioner.

We will:

Obtain and process information fairly

Keep it only for one or more specified, explicit and lawful purposes

Use and disclose it only in ways compatible with these purposes

Keep it safe and secure

Keep it accurate, complete and up-to-date

Ensure that it is adequate, relevant and not excessive

Retain it for no longer than is necessary for the purpose or purposes for which it was obtained.

I wish to make an access request under the Data Protection Acts 1988 and 2003 for a copy of any information you keep about me, on computer or in manual form.

Please include any details that could help us to locate your records. This might include:

Customer account number

Staff number

Any other information that may help us to identify your records

A fee of €6.35 may be charged.

More information

For more information on data protection check the website of the Data Protection Commissioner: www.dataprotection.ie.

Our use of cookies

This website uses Google Analytics to help analyse how users use the site. This analytical tool uses 'cookies', which are text files placed on your computer, to collect standard internet log information and visitor behaviour information in an anonymous form. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address) is transmitted to Google. This information is then used to evaluate visitors use of the website and to compile statistical reports on website activity for the ICO.

The ICO will not (and will not allow any third party) to use the statistical analytics tool to track or to collect any personally identifiable information of visitors to our site. We will not associate any data gathered from this site with any personally identifying information from any source as part of our use of the Google statistical analytics tool. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. Neither the ICO nor Google will link, or seek to link, an IP address with the identity of a computer user.

Further information about cookies

The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) is an industry body that develops standard and guidelines to support online business processes. It has produced a series of web pages which explain how cookies work and how they can be managed. http://www.iab.net/

Disabling/Enabling Cookies

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies by modifying the settings on your browser. The IAB site tells you how to remove cookies from your browser. This advice currently comprises the following steps (however please check the IAB site for the latest guidance http://www.iab.net/ ):

If you are using Microsoft Windows Explorer:

Open ‘Windows Explorer’

Click on the ‘Search’ button on the tool bar

Type ‘cookie’ into the search box for ‘Folders and Files’

Select ‘My computer’ in the ’Look In’ box

Click ‘Search Now’

Double click on the folders that are found

‘Select’ any cookie file use the ‘Delete’ button on your keyboard

If you are not using Microsoft Windows Explorer, then you should select ‘cookies’ in the ‘Help’ function for information on where to find your cookie folder.

Links to other sites

This privacy policy does not cover the links within this site linking to other sites.